Overview

Welcome to the Civil Engineering Department, one of the oldest departments in the country. Over the number of years, the department has produced young bright civil engineers of our country. The department has expertise in almost entire spectrum of civil engineering, apart from three Higher Degree programmes specialized in Structural Engineering,  Transportation Engineering and Infrastructure Systems. Our faculty members and students are involved in various research activities in all areas of civil engineering. The department is also very active in conducting various conferences, workshops, short term seminars etc. The department has been constantly involved in various consultancy projects.   

Research

The department has been involved constantly in various research projects, sponsored by various funding agencies. The thrust areas of the research and their sub areas are as mentioned under.

• Structural Engineering: Structural Materials and Concrete Technology, Structural Dynamics, Laminated Composite Structures, FRP Reinforced Concrete Structures, Finite Element applications in structural engineering, Bridge Engineering, Dynamic Instability of composite structures, Earthquake Engineering. 
  
• Environmental Engineering: Water quality management, Tranport theory, Waste minimization and sutainability, Physical and chemical processes in environmental systems, Hazardous Waster Management, Groundwater Contaminant Transport modeling and Simulation. 
  
• Geotechnical Engineering: Soil-Structure Interaction, Piled-Raft Foundations,Geosynthetics, Ground Improvement,  Reinforced Earth,  Physico-chemical properties of soil,  Ultrasonic testing of soils, Seismic Design of Foundation, Liquefaction of soils, Machine Foundation. 
• Soft Computing in Civil Engineering: Application of Fuzzy Logic and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Algorithm, Optimization, Multi-criterion Decision Making (MCDM) system. 
• Transportation Engineering: Rural accessibility planning, Traffic Flow Modeling, Traffic Engineering, Capacity and Level of Service analysis, Public Transportation System Planning and Management, Recycling of materials, Pavement Management.
• Water Resources Engineering: Reservoir Optimization, Drip Irrigation, Sustainable water resources development, Water quality and quantity management modeling, Optimization and soft computing techniques in water supply and wastewater treatment systems, River basin planning and Watershed hydrology, Rain Water Harvesting, Ground water modeling. 
• Green Buildings: Passive solar architecture, Solar energy, Building performance simulation, Energy efficient building materials, Life cycle cost analysis. 
• Planning and Management: Disaster, Construction and infrastructure.
• Geomatics: Remote Sensing, Image Processing, GIS. 
  

Courses

Currently the Department of Civil Engineering is offering the five different degrees under first Degree, higher degree and Doctoral programmes in Pilani Campus. The programmes offered are as follows:

• B.E. (Civil Engineering)
• M.E.(Civil - Structural Engineering)
• M.E.(Civil - Infrastructure Systems)
• M.E.(Civil - Transportation Engineering)
• Doctoral Programme (Ph.D)

Faculty

Our faculty have extensive experience in industry, research as well as teaching. Our strength is a reflection of their skills, innovation and drive. Our staff members typically have a high sense of purpose and derive great meaning from working together to ensure BITS Pilani's academic and research excellence is well supported.